Podcast #145: Overcoming Patellar Tendinopathy with Gibson Butler
“My patellar tendon pain was brought on by hiking and hunting. And the kind of hunting that specifically you’re doing out west, it’s a lot of vertical feet on very steep slopes with very loose footing. So it is a lot of quick movements, slipping, catching yourself. And I think it is a very tendon…
Podcast #144: Patellar Tendons with Tim Riley
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000705054319 “At the time, all the information out there was the way you dealt with jumper’s knee pain, the consensus was, Don’t let your knees go past your toes, because that’s going to irritate it. Rest. Ice them. No direct quad training.” Tendon pain: “It gets better and then it gets worse. And then you…
Podcast #143: Patellar Tendon Case Study with Tommy Heights
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000704957130 Jumper’s Knee: “it’s not like it hit me right away or I had one singular injury that was like, my knee is messed up. It was an accumulation of like six or seven months where I was making these huge gains. I went from 28 inches all the way up to close to 38…
Podcast #142: Finger Tendons with Tyler Nelson
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000704121310 “Rock climbers are very motivated. They like to try hard. They tend to have really good compliance, tend to be overly compliant. So it’s really over training [cause of finger tendon issues].” “It’s maybe easier to start jogging because you’ve been walking your whole life. But it’s not necessarily easy to start climbing because…
Podcast #141: Hamstrings and Hamstring Tendons with Johan Lahti
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000703488847 “When we talk about the tendons, we can talk about the free tendon that’s outside the muscle and then the intramuscular tendon that’s called also the aponeurosis. And those are highly different between the four hamstring muscles and the three biarticular, which basically tells us that just from a structural standpoint, they’re specialized for…
Podcast #140: Rotator Cuff Tendons with Jared Powell
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000702714821 “Most of the data that we have in the literature seems to suggest that 70 to 80 % of all shoulder pain presentations can be sort of housed under this umbrella term that we call rotator cuff related shoulder pain, which includes rotator cuff tendinopathy, partial thickness tears, full thickness tears, even subacromial bursitis…
Podcast #139: Tendons with Chris Johnson
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000702465188 “I deal with a lot of Endurance athletes who never want to basically back off training and who end up dealing with a lot of lower limb tendinopathy and bone stress injuries so that’s what keeps me busy.” “I think in the rehab space, people love all of their ancillary toys and tricks… I…
Podcast #138: Tendons with Taylor Starch
“You don’t really care about it until it starts hurting on yourself. And especially once starts hurting to the point where you do your normal bag of tricks and it doesn’t work, right? And that’s when you realize that we know a lot of stuff, especially in 2025, right? But we don’t understand most of…
Podcast #137: Tendons with Alex Nelson
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000700933250 Isometrics: “It’s not magic and there’s going to be some people that I think respond really well. And I think other population that’s just not going to respond too well and can’t even make them worse.” “When programming for people, I don’t necessarily think about the tendon all that much. I think about the…
Podcast #136: Gluteal and Rotator Cuff Tendons with Byron Miller
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jacked-athlete-podcast/id1462537296?i=1000700292416 “During clinical [in PT school], I developed a raging case of elbow tendinopathy. It was because I was doing a lot of manual therapy, writing a lot of notes and lifting and doing jujitsu. And it was just way too much… I’m in PT school, but I didn’t know how to manage it.” Glute…


